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“I introduced myself to her eventually, finally, ten years later, as she left Tirimo. It’s not the way we usually do these things, of course; it is not the relationship with her kind that we normally seek. But she is—was—special. You were, are, special.
I told her that I was called Hoa. It is as good a name as any.
This is how it began. Listen. Learn. This is how the world changed.”
— 2 hours, 48 min ago
I told her that I was called Hoa. It is as good a name as any.
This is how it began. Listen. Learn. This is how the world changed.”
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“‘I don’t want you to fix it,’ Alabaster says. ‘It was collateral damage, but Yumenes got what it deserved. No, what I want you to do, my Damaya, my Syenite, my Essun, is make it worse.’”
— 2 hours, 43 min ago
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“After a moment, Hoa sighs. ‘He said, if you wouldn’t come, to tell you that you owe him. For Corundum.’
You freeze. ‘Alabaster,’ you whisper.
‘Yes,’ says Hoa, brightening. ‘That’s his name.’ And then he frowns more, thoughtfully this time. ‘He’s dying.’”
— 3 hours, 7 min ago
You freeze. ‘Alabaster,’ you whisper.
‘Yes,’ says Hoa, brightening. ‘That’s his name.’ And then he frowns more, thoughtfully this time. ‘He’s dying.’”
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“‘I didn’t expect to live through a Season,’ he says softly. ‘I mean, I’ve heard the lore all my life, same as everyone else… but I always figured it would never happen to me.’
Everyone thinks that. You certainly weren’t expecting to have to deal with the end of the world on top of everything else.”
— 7 hours, 36 min ago
Everyone thinks that. You certainly weren’t expecting to have to deal with the end of the world on top of everything else.”
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“She cries because she has been inexpressibly lonely, and Schaffa… well. Schaffa loves her, in his tender and terrifying way. She does not pay attention to the bloody print his right hand leaves on her hip, or the press of his fingers—fingers strong enough to kill—against the base of her skull. Such things are irrelevant, in the grand scale.”
— Aug 09, 2026 10:04AM
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“That’s when Damaya finally realizes why people are looking: because they know about the strange quiet grit who goes wandering all the time. They’ve probably heard about Damaya via rumors or something, and they like that she’s finally brought someone else with her. They think she’s made a friend. Damaya would laugh, if the truth weren’t so unfunny.”
— Aug 09, 2026 09:49AM
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“Her eyes are shockingly black—shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because she’s wearing smoky gray eyeshadow and dark eyeliner to accentuate them further. Makeup, while the world is ending. You don’t know whether to be awed or affronted by that.”
— Aug 09, 2026 05:58AM
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“What Damaya sees in them is something she does not understand at first, though she wants it with a desperation that surprises and unnerves her. As those first weeks pass into months and she grows familiar with the routine, she begins to understand what it is that the older orogenes display: control.”
— Aug 08, 2026 04:47PM
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“‘Never would’ve figured Jija for the type. He hit you?’
You shake your head. ‘Never.’ It might have been easier to bear, somehow, if Jija had been violent beforehand. Then you could have blamed yourself for poor judgment or complacency, and not just for the sin of reproducing.”
— Aug 06, 2026 07:13PM
You shake your head. ‘Never.’ It might have been easier to bear, somehow, if Jija had been violent beforehand. Then you could have blamed yourself for poor judgment or complacency, and not just for the sin of reproducing.”
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“You’re a gift of the earth—but Father Earth hates us, never forget, and his gifts are neither free nor safe.”
— Aug 06, 2026 07:02PM
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“Lerna closes his eyes, letting out a long breath. ‘That’s it, then.’
That’s not it. That should never have been enough to provoke a father to murder his own child. Nothing should have done that.”
— Aug 06, 2026 06:51PM
That’s not it. That should never have been enough to provoke a father to murder his own child. Nothing should have done that.”